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STRATFOR Reader Response

Released on 2013-11-15 00:00 GMT

Email-ID

1367600

Date

2010-09-30 19:52:16

From

hughes@stratfor.com

To

bjorn.slagfeldt@fhs.se

List-Name

analysts@stratfor.com

Sir,

The current press releases and media reports have only specified
International Security Assistance Force troops, which especially for the
Pakistani media, is essentially to say non-Afghan foreign troops. We used
ISAF throughout most of the piece for this reason.

However, we shifted to discussing the U.S. at the end of the piece for two
reasons. The principal one is that whoever was involved in this particular
incident, the issue we move to discuss is between Islamabad and
Washington, not Pakistan and ISAF, NATO or another country. It is the U.S.
that is conducting cross-border operations and unmanned aerial vehicle
strikes in Pakistan, and the tension is over the operational agenda the
U.S. is pushing. Second, almost all troops in that area are U.S. troops
supported by U.S. attack helicopters. Odds are, it was the Americans.

Our apologies for the lack of clarity in that transition. Hopefully our
forthcoming second analysis on the incident (about to mail out now) will
help further clarify things.